Nikos Gatsos Poems

Rosewater

When you reach that other world, don't become a cloud, don't become a cloud, and the bitter star of dawn, so that your mother knows you, waiting at her door.Take a wand of willow, a root of rosemary, a root of rosemary, and be a moonlit coolnessfalling in the midnight in your thirsting courtyard.I gave you rosewater to drink, you gave me poison, eaglet of the frost, hawk of the desert.